Sooo, Im having a big day at work with 2 outages happening at the same time and luckily during the mayhem, I got to sneak out for 45 mins to Battery World as it was a bit of an urgency.
Missus is heading to Melrose tomorrow and had a battery issue with her car, its got 2 x 6-7yr old dying Optima yellow top batteries in it that have lasted really well. I said I would buy a new battery today and fit it tonight.
Her car usually only gets used for small trips, 1k to work, 2km to shops, 3km to the gym, 4km to school, 1km to walk the dog in Belair NP... it gets started at least 10-16 times a day and only does 20km a day max, it canes the batteries, alternator and starter motor.
She phones me at 3pm absolutely disgusted ! #1 son who just passed his driving test and is about 4 hrs into me teaching him to drive his manual Hilux was told this morning that he would not be getting picked up from school and delivered to his workplace today as she was waiting on the new battery and didn't want to risk the car not starting at her workplace (1km from our house) and he would have to get himself to work... aka the train or bus
She gets home at 3pm and his car is missing... stolen... gone !
She phones him frantically and the little chunt has said, she said "get yourself to school and work" which obviously means driving his car that he cant fucking drive. Fucking drives his brother to school in rush hour traffic, around one of Adelaide's top 10 most fucked up roundabouts, the 'Blackwood roundabout' with no clutch sense and has never even tried to reverse a manual car yet.
Now I'm all for learning by experience but this is a 1.5 ton weapon that can kill.
Anyway, he survived and has been told it was irresponsible as he knew we still had a big 4-5 hrs driving lesson planned for this Sunday to get the reversing and other stuff ironed out before I head to Ireland for a quick visit.
Fuck, it must have been a muppet show driving behind him and his grinning brother this morning in bumper to bumper traffic on Main rd on the way to school.
I'm picturing Beavis and Butthead driving the Hilux to school. Same sniggering and all
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